The closer we get to the end of the year, the larger the stack of kids work you’ve probably assembled. Now what?
Here are a few ideas from Family Fun (FF) magazine and from me. Let me now which ones appeal to you.
Sit down with your child. to decide which papers they want to keep. Suggest a limit you’re comfortable with keeping.
1. Box them (11X14), stow in 3-ring binger, or place them in a manila folder labeled for each school year.
2. Select 1-2 of each subject to place in a scrapbook.
3. Shrinky Dink the art pieces to make charms. (FF)
4. Buy an online scrapbook service for each year’s best kept papers. (FF)
5. Hang up papers by category on child’s board and replace/dispose of monthly. Hang via a giant clip.(FF)
6. Scan into a computer file for each child by school year.
7. Use sections of saved papers as front pages of thank you notes or note cards.
8. Laminate the ‘keepers’ and use as placemats.
9. Mail a selection to grandparents.
10. String up as a clothesline dedicated to Best Work (FF)
11. Photo your child with the special pages and save online, etc. year by year. It will show their physical as well as educational growth.